Job Title: Project Manager - Utilities Expansion

Location: Aylesbury Manufacturing plant

Contract Rate - circa £500 - paid inside IR35

About the Role:
Our client, a leading manufacturer, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee a utilities expansion program at their manufacturing site. The projects are currently at the feasibility and design stage, focusing primarily on refrigeration and wastewater systems. The ideal Project Manager will have the capability to manage the projects through the full life cycle, from design and planning to commissioning and closeout, while ensuring compliance with relevant health, safety regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Project Manage the full project lifecycle from feasibility and design through to commissioning and handover.
  • Oversee the refrigeration and wastewater expansion projects, ensuring technical, budgetary, and timeline objectives are met.
  • Ensure compliance with CDM (Construction Design and Management) regulations, coordinating with designers, contractors, and stakeholders to manage health and safety risks.
  • Liaise with internal stakeholders, external consultants, and contractors to ensure smooth project delivery.
  • Develop and maintain project plans, risk registers, and status reports.
  • Track project costs and ensure efficient allocation of resources.

Required Experience & Skills:

  • Proven experience as a Project Manager, managing utilities/engineering projects in a manufacturing, or industrial environment.
  • Ideally some experience with refrigeration systems and wastewater utilities projects.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage projects through the full lifecycle.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple competing priorities.

Desirable Qualifications:

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 certification.

Engineering background in mechanical, chemical, or process engineering

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If this Project Manager role sounds right for you, contact Simon on 07799 866285 or email simon@proactiveglobal.com.

Commutable from Oxford, Watford, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Reading, Luton, Hemel Hempstead, Watford, Slough, Maidenhead, Amersham, Chesham, Beaconsfield, Marlow, Banbury, Bedford, Bicester, Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, St Albans, Aylesbury, Tring, Princes Risborough, Thame, Abingdon, Didcot, Bracknell, Windsor, Northampton, Harrow, Uxbridge and other parts of London, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

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Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

£450.00 - £550.00
Per day
GBP450 - GBP550 per day

Aylesbury

Contract

Added 11/05/2026
Reference: PM-Con/Man1_1778517830

Project Manager - Manufacturing - Utilities

Aylesbury
Contract

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